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tgeller writes "British web designer Jonathan Browntweeted that Drupal creator Dries Buytaert has surpassed 10,000 commits to the open-source content-management system he created ten years ago, Drupal. In a private email, Dries said, 'I'm mostly committing other people's patches: Credit really goes to the community at large.' Still, it's rare for individual to log that many commits. Can anyone claim more?"

I have 30874 on the Ptolemy II [ptolemy.org] repository, see http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/cxbrx [ohloh.net].
Hauke Fuhrmann put up Codeswarm [ucdavis.edu] videos of the software evolution of the Ptolemy II project. See Chaotic [vimeo.com], Less Chaotic [vimeo.com].
The number of commits is a poor measure though. I tend to make lots of small commits while cleaning code. A student doing a Ph.D., may make many fewer commits, but their commits have greater impact in the form of support for their Ph.D. We see software as a form of publication, see
Software Practice in the Ptolemy Project [berkeley.edu].